FBI investigating troubled Dulles Rail board, Washington Examiner, October 24, 2012

By Liz Essley

The FBI is investigating the embattled authority overseeing construction of the $6 billion Dulles Rail project, The Washington Examiner has learned.

Federal investigators have spent months looking into contracts worth millions of dollars that were awarded by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to companies that employ friends and relatives of authority officials, sources familiar with the investigation said.

In addition to the FBI probe, an inspector general at the U.S. Department of Transportation is preparing to issue a separate report on its investigation of the authority that is expected detail the agency's history of nepotism, The Examiner has learned. . . .

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